Overview
- Illustrates how rapid shifts to funerary practices in South Korea over the past quarter century are linked to socioeconomic transformations
- Offers the first critical sociological English-language analysis of the modern funeral business in Korea
- Constructs meaningful, material bridges between screen representation and traditional culture in everyday life
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- Funeral rites
- Funeral service industry
- Representation of funeral rites
- Funeral service conglomerates
- Modernisation of Korea
- Korean capitalism
- Urbanisation in Korea
- High suicide rate in Korea
- Representations of suicide in Korea
- Pariah capitalism
- Rapid economic development in Korea
- Films depicting funerals
- Funeral advertising
- Ossuary in Korea
- Filial piety
- Commercial exploitation of grief
- Critical realism
- Social class and funerals
- Journalism about funeral rites
- area studies
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Winner of Korean Education Minister’s Book Prize 2020
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Funeral Rites in Contemporary Korea
Book Subtitle: The Business of Death
Authors: Gil-Soo Han
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7852-2
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7851-5Published: 03 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-7854-6Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-7852-2Published: 22 May 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 231
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Area Studies, Media Sociology, Asian Culture, Asian Business, Asian Cinema and TV